Chesterton and Conservatives on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Az.) has no plans to reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell:

The No. 2 Senate Republican said Monday that he didn’t plan to seek a repeal of this weekend’s vote to end “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”

Sen. Jon Kyl (Ariz.), the GOP whip, suggested that Republicans — or at least he himself — wouldn’t look to undo the actions taken by Congress last week to lift the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military.

“No, I don’t have any plan in place,” Kyl said on Fox News on Monday when asked if he had a plan to repeal the repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”

To me this recalls, the quote of G.K. Chesterton, “whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.”

Thus, in a nutshell, the problem with modern politics.

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